Despite the fact that it opened at number two here in the States when it first came out (trailing Josh Trank's Chronicle), the horror flick The Woman in Black was actually a fairly big success. After making $20 million in its first weekend, it went on to score a total of $54 million domestically and $127 million worldwide (not to mention that it was the highest grossing horror film in the UK in 20 years).

Nowadays studios pay much more attention to what's going on at the foreign box office. While a movie might be a moderate success here in the states, there are some titles that are total blockbusters overseas. Resident Evil: Afterlife made a respectable $60 million in the US, but everywhere else it raked in over $230 million and is getting a sequel this year.

Here a trio of lovely Victorian girls enjoys a tea party. What would otherwise be a charming scene is rendered horrific by an absence of diegetic sound. Instead, a spare yet spooky theme plays over the proceedings as an unseen figure draws the children's attention. Then, things slow to a crawl as the girls drop their toys, and thoughtlessly crush them underfoot in their singular mission to leave their game behind and...

Does the Super Bowl effect ticket sales? You'd better believe it. While Sunday does tend to be the lowest money maker of any three day weekend, Super Bowl Sunday is usually (and predictably) one of the lowest Sundays of the year. After all, how could anything Hollywood cranks out compare to watching commercials featuring dogs barking out themes from Star Wars?

This week on Operation Kino, we've got two reviews for the price of one (OK, it's always free, but work with us here). Nobody saw the same new releases, so Katey goes over the surprising joys of the found footage superhero movie Chronicle, while Patches enters a disappointing haunted house with Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black

Shortly after taking his final bow as Harry Potter in The Deathly Hallows - Part 2, Daniel Radcliffe is back on the big screen. In honor of The Woman in Black’s February 3rd release, Radcliffe sat down to talk all about the transition from Potter to horror, his own unease with the genre, the preparation necessary for embodying such a troubled character and much more. Check it all out in this interview.

After his runs in Equus and How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying on the stage, we should already know Radcliffe is capable of far more than waving wands in Voldemort’s face. Sure enough, he’s about to prove it this weekend, starring in the horror film The Woman in Black. Think going from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to the eerie Eel Marsh House is a big move? How about going from in front of the camera to behind it?

The Harry Potter franchise largely geared itself towards younger audiences, but when you really think about it, there were plenty of horrific elements. In addition to the casual deaths, destruction and forces of evil, there were giant man-eating spiders, slain unicorns, ghosts, demon prison guards, indentured servants, and psychotics. Daniel Radcliffe had to witness all of that in those films, so just imagine what he will go through in The Woman in Black.

Bust out the balloons, hang the streamers, make sure the beer’s on ice and put the women and children to bed. Basically, get ready for a party because This Rotten Week is celebrating its hundredth column. That’s 100, people! One hundred columns and what do I have to show for it? A lot actually

While the trailers make The Woman in Black look absolutely terrifying and the scares should sell themselves, the truth is that the film's best marketing tool is Daniel Radcliffe. While the cast also includes great actors like Ciaran Hinds, Shaun Dooley and Janet McTeer, only one of them spent the last decade of their life playing Harry Potter.

So far the trailers have been spooky and effective. They've also been a little repetitive. The creepy eyeball, the unnerving photographs, the faint silhouette of a shadowy lady -- all spooky as hell, but starting to become overly familiar now that we've seen them in multiple trailers. This new one recycles many of those same images...

CBS Films has gradually been siphoning out more little glimpses at The Woman in Black as we approach its February release date. Now they've sent along another still from the movie. While it doesn't provide much insight into the storyline's secrets, it is moody as hell and proves that Radcliffe looks right dapper in a suit.

What's not to like? It's got creepy kids, a crumbling manse, ominous warnings, unnerving photographs, and that damn eyeball. In The Woman in Black Radcliffe plays a young lawyer tasked with sorting out the estate of a dead client. Should be a cakewalk so long as he doesn't run into any terrible, vengeful spirits or anything

Now that Harry Potter has wrapped up his adventures both on the screen and on the page, it will be interesting to see where the careers of Daniel Radcliffe and the rest of the cast, who have devoted much of their young lives to the series, go. For his first post-Potter flick, Radcliffe will still be dealing with supernatural matters, but the Woman in Black looks a lot more intimidating than old no-nose Voldemort ever was.

Directed by James Watkins, The Woman In Black stars Daniel Radcliffe as Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer sent to a small town to collect the papers of a recently deceased client. What he doesn't know, however, is that the little town is haunted and he discovers that the house he's in is also inhabited by a very vengeful ghost.

Truthfully, this looks like it could be a still from any of the last four Harry Potter films. Slap a pair of glasses on Radcliffe, digitally add the trademark lightning-bolt scar, and the actor’s character could be staring down Lord Voldemort instead of a spooky ghost. Then again, we spent the better part of the last decade watching Radcliffe cast spells in his recognizable wizard robes, so maybe it's us who needs a little distance from J.K. Rowling’s masterful literary series.

Production on the final installment of Harry Potter has long since reached its end and it’s time for the trio of stars - Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson - to make a splash doing something that doesn’t involve the world of wizards. It looks like Harry himself is going to be the first to the big screen in a post-Potter world with The Woman In Black.